ἀνάλυσις

From ἀναλύω (analúō, “I unravel, investigate”) +‎ -σις (-sis).

ᾰ̓νᾰ́λῠσῐς • (ănắlŭsĭs) f (genitive ᾰ̓νᾰλῠ́σεως); third declension

1. a loosing, releasing
2. a dissolving, resolution of a whole into its parts, analysis
3. (in Aristotle's Logic) the reduction of the imperfect figures into the perfect one
4. the solution of a problem
5. retrogression, retirement, departure

• σύνθεσις (súnthesis)

• ἀνᾰλῠτῐκός (anălŭtĭkós)

• Greek: ανάλυση (análysi)
• → Latin: analysis (see there for further descendants)

• “ἀνάλυσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀνάλυσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀνάλυσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀνάλυσις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• G359 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• ἀνάλυσις in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften